nominating本题和第3题同属信息题。难度较大。注意听原文的：“．．．the GRAMMYprocess can be divided into five stage…”之后紧接的内容，就可以很轻松地答对这两道题。

M: Do you know the GRAMMY Awards?
W: Yes. The GRAMMY Awards are the recording industry’s most prestigious award. A GRAMMY is awarded by the Recording Academy’s voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences.
M: How did the GRAMMY Awards start?
W: In 1957, a visionary group of music professionals and label executives in Los Angeles recognized the need to create an organization that would represent the creative people in the recording arts and sciences. They wanted to recognize and celebrate the artistic achievement of not only talented musicians and singers but also important, behind-the-scenes contributors such as producers and engineers. Conceived as a way to create a real recording industry community and address some of these concerns, the Recording Academy was born and the GRAMMY Awards process began.
M: What is the process of the GRAMMY Awards?
W: It is a complicated process. Briefly, the GRAMMY process can be divided into five stages: 1) entering; (2) screening; (3) nominating; (4) voting; (5) winning.
M: Who votes for the GRAMMY Awards? Audiences? Record companies?
W: It is Recording Academy’s voting members that can vote for the GRAMMY Awards.
M: Who qualifies as a voting member?
W: Recording Academy voting members are professionals with creative or technical credits on six commercially released tracks. These may include conductors, songwriters, composers, engineers, producers, instrumentalists, arrangers, art directors, album notes writers, narrators and music video artists, and technicians.
M: How many awards categories are there in the GRAMMY Awards?
W: The GRAMMY Awards has 28 fields (Pop, Gospel, Classical etc.) and 101 categories within those fields.
M: How many audiences do the GRAMMY Awards have?
W: The GRAMMY Awards are telecast annually to an international audience of over 2 billion in 180 countries.